Other recommendations

Introduction

The Cost Analyzer's optimization feature includes a section that identifies idle or underutilized Azure resources across multiple subscriptions and management groups, consolidates them, and offers actionable recommendations.

Recommendations for a cost management group will be accessible in the following path: Cost group -> Optimization -> Other recommendations.

Below is a list of recommendations provided for identifying idle and underutilized resources.

Each recommendation type includes a detailed description, the number of resources identified across multiple subscriptions, and the consolidated cost of the recommended resources to highlight potential savings.

By selecting the recommendation name, users can view the resources and their details identified for the corresponding recommendation type.

Recommendation notification

Recommendations can be notified as a recommendation report, allowing a specific team (or) team member to prioritize actions for a particular resource.

1. Select a recommendation name.
2. Select a recommended resource.
3. Click on Actions->Trigger notification.

3. Choose the desired channels (or) configure recipient mail address
4. Click Send

The recommended resource data will be sent as a report to the configured channels.

Below is an image of recommendation report received via mail after triggering it for a rightsizing recommendation:

Task planner integration

Cost Analyzer integrates with Task Planner to automatically generate tasks when a user triggers a notification for Other Recommendations.

Accessing the task

• The generated task will be available in the respective cost management group by clicking Tasks option from the three-dotted menu available within the Analysis section.

• Alternatively, the task can also be accessed through the Task Planner, available under the My Profile dropdown, for broader visibility across groups.

Ignore recommendations

Resources can be excluded from recommendations if the user prefers to maintain their current usage. This can be done by selecting the resources from the recommendation and clicking Actions -> Ignore to ignore them.

The Ignore action provides two options:

• Permanently exclude the resource from recommendations.

• Ignore it temporarily until a specified date range.

The ignored ones are accessible in Actions -> View ignored recommendations.

Export recommendations

Recommendations can be downloaded as an excel workbook.

1. Click Recommendation name->Actions->Download as excel option to export the recommendations in an excel worksheet.

Downloaded excel file contains the basic details of the resources.